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Translation:

Fatima, who had accused the deceased of stealing her cell phone, called on her soldier boyfriend who came along with other soldiers, took the guy away and battered him.

Upon realizing that he isn't going to make it, the soldiers then took and left him for dead at the door to his house. Soon after, his siblings hurried him to the hospital where he was pronounced dead.

God rest his soul.

Such a cruel world!

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Omudia11:
The way things are done in this country is just laughable. Why should Anambra with a population and a GDP less than that of Rivers state be considered ahead of Rivers? Why should a unproductive state like kano even be considered at all?

It's not as if your comment surprised me, because you have always been dumb!

It's just that this is a hateful lie! A dangerously foolish comment!

Have you ever been to Onitsha in your miserable life? I doubt so. Like it or not, that place is deserving of some kind of help to encourage its growth. Rivers State deserves consideration, yes, but to talk down other places as less deserving of such on grounds of some silly reasons is the peak of stupidity.

Labelling Kano an unproductive state tells of a creek soldier who barely knows a thing.

You should seek whatever god you believe in sometime, you need profound cleansing! Your kind of hate could consume you otherwise.

Well, you do not need to waste any bullets; your verbal attacks are just as deadly!

PatrickOkunima:
@ malton:

What you've written up there is very far from reality. The "unconnected" got a chance because the man at the helms of affairs is principled. It's as simple as that. If he decides to do otherwise, nobody will question him.

What makes one an exceptional soldier or policeman is not intelligence but bravery, which we have no means of measuring. If you're appointed to recruit men into either of the organizations, the best you can do is to subject the applicants to some form of physical and mental tests. Those who scale through will then be assesses medically. Note that the primary essence of the medical test is to screen out applicants who may not be able to cope with the training as a result of their medical history or condition. Ability to perform in service is secondary consideration. The training is very very rigorous, especially military. I know because I have passed through one. You won't survive if you're not medically fit. That's why I always emphasize that if one is screened out on medical grounds, the best thing to do is to forget about the force and move ahead. If you try to involve your godfather, you may be endangering your life.

Your point is well argued out.

I cannot rule out this occurring due to the principled nature of the Oga at the top as you claim. However, one must realize that in Nigeria, the bigwigs somehow always have their way.

The system is often rigged to have their kids not participate in such rigorous exercises.

It could be right either way, but what I choose to believe is that they do not deem the police force good enough for their kids, so would rather not force them through.

It may not be true for everyone else, but a majority of their kids didn't even bother applying. At least, I've spoken with a good number of individuals who don't rate the NPF highly enough. Besides, I know a couple who turned down slots offered them citing they preferred the NAF instead.

Keep that same man in say the Nigerian Customs, Immigration, Airforce, Navy, Army, etc., and watch the difference unfold right before your eyes.

Asides those who have a passion for the force, some of them often enlist for the NPF because "the desirable is unavailable." A possibility which the vast number of illegal employments made this year has greatly reduced.

Why force it when you don't even care?

I was only whittling down the assertion that this may mark the beginning of a change; which obviously isn't the case.

So if in any case merit was followed, and not because not many of the connected applied, then, that's because they need more protection in the face of the growing insecurity in the land.

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Mr. Amadi, it's like your stock-in-trade is littering our space with junk news!

Each and every space on this thread is important, biko.

Lol.

First off, congrats on your successful enlistment, OP.

Note, however, that this does not in the slightest way indicates that Nigeria is headed in the right direction.

Thing is, irrespective of how greedy a man is, he doesn't toy with his safety. Much as having it all to him self is a goal all those gluttons share in common, they usually go for the best hands when it comes to their safety.

Case in point: When it comes to hiring a pilot, expertise and experience trumps all else, including religion and ethnicity. This is because they are very well aware that no matter how well your tribesman means for you, chances are that he may crash you someday if he has limited knowledge in such areas.

As a matter of fact, them hiring the best brains is an indication of continuing corruption.

They have felt the heat much more lately, so, have come to realize the importance of security in their kleptocratic lives. This is a demonstration of their desire to feel even more secure than the Fort Knox so that they can enjoy the proceeds of their loot in peace.

If not;

Why didn't merit matter when it came to CBN and FIRS?

Why have their kit and kin been employed into FIRS, and are on their second salaries while others have yet to be called for interviews?

Why do their children still get jobs to which openings weren't advertised?

Why do government officials fall over themselves when it comes to securing juicy appointments for their wards?

Millions of questions to ask, but the long and short of the story is that, the number of thieves and potential thieves has increased exponentially, hence the need to hire the children of the poor who have a reputation of being focused on the job to guard over they and theirs.

Your case is the positive effect of a bad practice. And I'm happy for you!

Lol.

We have clowns aplenty on nairaland.

As for Trump, that dullard will blunder his way to an international crisis.

senbonzakurakageyoshi:
I can't fault your submission, but what happens when this "Strong,benevolent dictator" leaves power? Isn't there the risk that we would fall back to our old ways and ruin all the achievements this leader has left behind?

Take for instance: In Lagos, opposite the National Stadium, the area was a hotbed of disorganisation. Multiple bike stands, danfos parking anywhere and turning anyhow, roadside sellers and hawkers selling their goods wherever they deemed fit....... As a result, traffic in the area was a nightmare and it was generally unsafe. Then Fashola became governor and cleared all of them out and cleaned up the place. Traffic flowed easily, the area was clean and organized and everything ran pretty good. Then Fashola left office and it seemed for the first few months of Ambode's tenure, he wasn't interested in the area or continuing what Fashola did there. Gradually, the indiscriminate parking and hawking and driving returned to the area. Fortunately, Ambode fixed the issue before it became a real problem and it's more or less back to the way Fashola left it, possibly better.

Question is, what if Ambode wasn't interested in continuing Fashola's legacy in that area? It is obvious it would return to the disorganised, polluted, traffic nightmare it was.

So what's the solution, if not "strong, benevolent leaders"?

Strong systems! They would ensure that regardless of who is in power, things would run the way they should. The problem with Nigeria right now is that we run a weak system that doesn't punish nonperformance and idleness or disorganisation and corruption - which is why these things have become part of the system - and are strong in it. Don't assume that al the leaders we have had and currently have all came in with bad intentions. It's just that they alone couldn't change the system and even when they did, the system reverts back to the way it was before they took office.

Government is like balancing a stick on a knife edge: it can easily fail if not done right. Having good people means that the stick would be balanced well as long as those people are there to balance it. Having strong systems means that regardless of who is balancing it, it would still remain balanced and, if the person isn't good enough, the person would be replaced with someone that can balance it properly. And that's where Nigeria is not getting it right. Our system is essentially flawed. It's more important to have a legislature that makes the right kind of laws and an executive that would execute said laws and mandates properly and a judicial system that interprets those laws and, of course, a system in which all three keep each other in check than to have good people in offices because it is inevitable that someone with the wrong mindset or intention would take office. But if there is a strong, proper system in place, the country would still run fine regardless.

Good question.

Succession matters. Economic and political structures will help ensure sustainability as will orientation. The key here lies in incentivizing the system to ensure compliance.

A potent individual will realize that changing individual notions of what's cool will rid the system of what had seemed like perpetual noncompliance. Successive governments will strive to ensure policy consistency when they are made to see the good in it.

Also, the system of reward and punishment can be put in place to achieve this. There should be checks and balances. Institutions should be put in place to check the excesses of an incumbent. In he must deviate from a certain practice, cogent reasons must be offered as to why.

The penalty of deviating too much should be grave when the effects of deviation impact negatively.

HungerBAD:
Laughing.

This Professor Ogunleye is a funny guy. I had taken my time to read the article like 3 times, for me to realize that although beautifully put together, the article does not make any sense.

And it takes a lot for a senseless nobody like me, to consider a Professor's write up senseless.

All these public commentators with their gifts for spin sef.

Professor Ogunleye after giving us some Abracadrabra calculations on who gets what, and how it is spent, now concluded that it does not matter what any State gets, as the most important thing is that the money is used justly.

Professor Ogunleye, the question is not whether the money is used rightly or wrongly. The question is, is the money gotten from the South considered eating from the federation fat by the North? and yes they are eating very FAT from where they should not be eating.

Nigerians are many things, but gullible we are not.

@ the emboldened, you seem to not realize how much trouble a comment like this is capable of brewing.

Not all parts of a any place, country or community, are abundant in natural resources. Even in the Delta, not all communities are oil rich. Should they then be left to suffer their fate alone?

The argument in support of the practice in place is that of redistribution of income so as to achieve even broad economic growth.

Ideas like yours has imbued in people's minds that the north is the enemy reaping where she didn't sow. How convenient that you make it seem like every other southern state is that productive or rich.

The glaring lack of trust and loathe that the average southerner has towards the northerner is as a result of such negligible but impactful pronouncements; not necessarily because they have had enough encounter with a northerner to form an opinion.

It is unlikely that we will become internationally relevant without our own larger country to prop us up. Nigeria as a country, has to meet the needs of a people who actually do not just see themselves as just citizens, but who wish to share in the benefits of being countrymen.

While the Niger-Deltans deserve a better treatment than they are getting, you should please stop making it seem like the northerners are responsible for even the headache a southerner gets.

Junaid sha. He's always there to stir controversy.

Much as one may not really like his person, Junaid made some strong points here.

An insider told me about the monumental corruption going on right under Buhari's noses, and I could not help but wonder where the Buhari of old went.


Come 2019, it's anybody but Buhari.

If not because of my man Tinubu sef, I for don fling this confused man since.

One day, Nigeria shall import even dark skinned people.

What this country needs is a dictator with good intentions, solid policies, and the willpower to get things done. Someone who doesn't take no for an answer. Western liberalism will obviously get us nowhere.

Someone once argued that a "capable, technocratic authoritarian government on top of its game is far better for a developing, background country than a democratic one." I thought he was being naive when I read his submission. How true this is for my country.

Let's face it, Nigeria's problem isn't the system of government nor the people. Our issue stems from having successive governments that have failed to make a headway in spite of all the support they have got.

Singapore, China, S. Korea, Japan, and Taiwan, to list a few, have all turned their fortunes around despite being a unitary government. Canada, England, Spain, etc have done so as a constitutional monarchy. The US, Germany, Switzerland, etc. have gone on to achieve greatness as a republic.

Our problems:

1. Religiousity

2. Too many vested interests (generator importers cabal frustrating power stability, transport moguls frustrating railway, and so many more)

3. Lack of will

4. Skew sighted, warped, and bigoted "leaders"

5. The political circle comprises 90% illiterates who are incapable of any good by themselves.

We need a benevolent dictator to right many wrongs before things can take shape in this country. The masses are willing, but that's about as much power as they have got. The political parties keep churning out dundees.

I can't shout!

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Na today?

Everybody knows that Simi cannot dress to save her own life!

This shapeless peg in round hole is trying to bite more than he can chew.

Most of his policies have been controversial since he came on board, now this.

DIKEnaWAR:
I am no longer asking for fiscal federalism again. I am asking for a confederacy!(since they say we are better together) Let the north continue with their religious affairs which puts food on their table.

As for me and my people, we want advancement in science, technology, agriculture, health care, economics and business. We want to run a country like it is done in the 21st century. We want to compete with other 21st century countries. We don't want to be held down anymore by a people who are not ready to develop.

This is the same way they smuggled sponsorship of pilgrimage into our system and compensated the corrupt christins among us with same, to keep quiet. We keep wasting scarce resources on that alone. They have abandoned the almajiri schools built by GEJ, to drag us down again. People who are still practising nomadic farming with the attendant killings by the nomads. Yet we can't stop it!

Nigeria is not developed because northerners have been most of our heads of government. The few times southerners occupied that position, this country moved forward a bit. Do a honest appraisal and you'll discorer the truth, unless you are still shouting sai baba on a half rotten by hunger stomach.

Your submission cannot be faulted at all.

Yesterday, while I was watching newsline on NTA, an advertisement came through. Everyone was citing reasons why the liked it in Lagos. When it got to the Hausa man's turn, he went "I like Lagos because it allows me to practice my religion, peacefully." I turned to my cousin and said, "imagine!" We both shook our heads in disappointment.

Muslims from the extreme North carry religion for head like head gear. And it's not as if they are Godly o; just a bunch of hypocrites who think of themselves more Godly than even Saudi Arabia.

Their mode of reasoning is counter progressive.

I'm not surprised by the man's silly proposal. Most state decisions are made in mosques anyways, so I wasn't expecting anything to the contrary.

Only if Nigerians can speak up with one voice and reject them and their anti-progressive ideals.

I think a classic mistake would be for Buhari and his cronies to think they are getting block votes come 2019 off the back of some phantom anti corruption mantra.

Someone talked about the masses being his major support base. That's true, but one must understand that things change so fast.

And while there are those who still see nothing wrong in anything the president does, some people up north are beginning to think that it was a mistake electing him.

Their disappointment lies in him not doing enough to rid the nation of corruption especially in areas he could have have influenced, somehow.

A TRUE Muslim is an upright one. The case of CBN, FIRS and other government agencies conducting backdoor recruitment exercises right under his nose has left a bad taste in the mouths of the rank and file. That's something they cannot excuse. Because at the time of electing him, they thought they were choosing the right candidate to clean up the entire mess. They are no less disappointed in him for his inability to clean up the system almost two years down the line than they were for GEJ's entrenchment of such practices.

Truth is, nothing has really changed. They just got worse. The president is arming the opposition with enough firearm to send him to as far back home as Fouta Djallon.

The success, or failure thereof, of his reelection bid very much depends on his performance leading up to 2019. Nothing is automatic. And provided opposition parties present credible enough candidates, he's going back home, it's not a question of could.

I'm not gloating about anything, nor am I despairing. I just hope that he gets it right before it gets too late for him to.

She's pretty. Although it isn't out of place, I don't know about her being the prettiest.

Well, props to him for knowing the right thing to do, and for doing it so well.

When Obama bowed to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia in 2009, the Americans went all ballistic. They saw it as an act that belittled the power and independence of the United States.

But I thought it was shallow when some of them accused him of "bending over to show greater respect to Islam."

Similarly, while some Nigerians will see this as belittling the independence of Nigeria - and rightly so, seeing it as him showing greater respect to Islam is BS!

A king is a king, irrespective of where he comes from, whether or not his laws are binding on you.

The outrage that greets things as these amazes me.

Bowing before a king tells of someone who is well-mannered enough to know the right thing to do. Bowing before a foreign king shows that your respect is non discriminatory. His parents really brought him up well!

Only shallow people view everything through religious lenses. It's about the throne, not the practice. A king is a king, irrespective of what he represents.

No. 2.

After which I'll pop champagne and go about my normal activity as if nothing happened.

Nothing really surprises me about people - this shouldn't be an exception.

I ain't got time for drama. The silent treatment she'll get will be enough signal of my disapproval.

That way, I'll have peace of mind not having to think about the worst she could do.

But like joke, she won't realize she she begins packing her things out of the house. Unless if all she needs is a room mate.

Yorubaangel:
No need to dine (worship) with the Devils.... One-pure mind is very important in worship... But there mind is definitely not pure not to talk of one... # àwọn Nigeria-demons gbogbo

In your own wisdom, what makes him a purer mind than the rest Aso Rock Devils?

She sharp!

I'm moved by pretty girls who in spite of side distractions, give their all and come out on top.

She's making me feel like I left the East way too soon.

Nice.


May 2017 bring forth better things for Nigeria and her people.

The people need freedom, broad economic growth, and social security.

I pray the heavens hear your prayers.

Wrongs after wrongs after wrongs done them, still, some people just never learn.

You would expect that this man will be wiser by now. But for where - as if dem swear for am.

I don't get why a grown ass man will hold onto someone who has long let go of him.

Nna, you're embarrassing yourself!

It's quite disturbing when a man acts like a pus.sy over a woman, especially one that is undeserving of such.

CXLVII:
In recession period...That money is worth the life o


Igbo man go give SSS four of hin pikin for execution.....

Nna!...Thats NGN60,000,000

What sort of a reckless comment is this?!

No amount of money is worth a man's life.

And, there are many smart Igbos who very well understand that staying alive is an opportunity to make hundreds of millions.

Everyone isn't silly!

This is dangerous politics.

El Rufai is taking it too far though, that's assuming it's him.

Again, it could be the handiwork of other enemies who seek to take advantage of the feud between both men to wage their own war, since predictably, people would look to another man as being responsible.

For me, this wasn't unexpected.

It heralds the arrival of a major strategic shift in alliance.

The president is trying to forge an understanding with the Saraki camp, all in a bid to preserve a parley - something which if you asked me, is a mistake of grave proportions.

This new found romance with Saraki is a reflection of the president's incompetence. It is impossible to know the extent of damage it'll cause yet, but it promises to be a costly one.

What more can we do than sit and watch as the drama unfolds.

For Tinubu, he should just consider Buhari a bad debt written off. The man is up to no good, judging by current trends.

Obviously this helps he and his team size up Mr. President. At least, now they can get a read on how he is going to behave.

Cut it loose, I'd say.

To be worth your grain as a man, you ought to see every action started to finish. Chickening out in the middle of it tells of a nitwit.

He's fast breaking with all the principles he has worked so hard to establish over a dream that may never come through.

Nothing is more indicating of a red flag than betraying the one who has given up so much for you for someone who has done nothing but try to put you down.

Regardless how new a party is, it won't sell if it elects a terrible candidate as its flag bearer.

Truth is, Atiku isn't really sellable. Coronating him will be such a bad idea. In our hearts and our minds, we may be thinking, yeah, at least he will make a better president than Buhari. That's one mistake because he may end up being the better candidate that never came through. The electorates barely even recognize him because he has never identified with them. Atiku is for the elites, but how many of them have voter's card?

At the individual level, I prefer Atiku 100 times to Buhari for obvious reasons. But we've got to be realistic. When it comes to furthering the interest of the collective, I believe that Buhari is the better candidate.

Besides, I'm tired of seeing the same old people in the political cycle. We've seen the best that they've got. Maybe it's time we tried fresher ideas?

Then again, the old bloc have built a wall so hard for a newbie to break through.

Politics is sh.i.t. I never thought that a time shall come when I'd prefer the military style.